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Marasmarcha lunaedactyla, also known as the crescent plume is a moth of the family Pterophoridae found in most of Europe. It was first described by Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1811.

Marasmarcha lunaedactyla
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pterophoridae
Genus:	Marasmarcha
Species:	M. lunaedactyla
Binomial name
Marasmarcha lunaedactyla (Haworth, 1811)[1]
Synonyms
List Alucita lunaedactyla Haworth, 1811 Alucita phaeodactyla Hübner, 1813 Pterophorus agrorum Herrich-Schäffer, 1855 Marasmarcha altaica Krulikowski, 1906 Marasmarcha agrorum var. tuttodactyla Chapman, 1906

Description

The wingspan is 18–22 mm. Adults have a moon-shaped creamy-white marking at the cleft of their brownish forewing, hence the names crescent plume and M. lunaedactyla. Adults are on wing from June to August.[2]

The larvae feed on the flowers and young shoots of Ononis species, including common restharrow (Ononis repens), spiny restharrow (Ononis spinosa), yellow restharrow (Ononis natrix), round-leaved restharrow (Ononis rotundifolia) and Ononis arvensis. Pupation takes place along a shoot or on a leaf of the food plant.

Distribution

The crescent plume is found in most of Europe, except Ireland and most of the Balkan Peninsula.

References

External links

• microlepidoptera.nl

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